The Seminar on “The Chinese Perspective in the Study of WTO Law” and Launching of the Book “My Personal Experience in the WTO Appellate Body Held in Beijing

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On October 28, 2017, the Seminar on “The Chinese Perspective in the Study of WTO Law” and Launching of the Book My Personal Experience in the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization was held in Beijing. The seminar was organized by the International Economic Law Department of CASS Institute of International Law and attended by over 50 persons, including officials from the Ministry of Commerce and the Supreme People’s Court, experts and scholars from CASS, Tsinghua University, China Society for World Trade Organization Studies, TWO Law Research Committee of China Law Society, Renmin University of China, University of International Business and Economics, China University of Political Science and Law, Nankai University, and Huadong University of Political Science and Law, lawyers from relevant law firms, and reporters and editors from Legal Daily and Social Sciences Academic Press. The seminar was divided into four parts. The first part is the launching ceremony of the book My Personal Experience in the WTO Appellate Body, written by Ms. Zhang Yuejiao, a judge on the Appellate Body of the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism. In the second part of the seminar, Judge Zhang Yuejiao gave a keynote speech on her personal experience in the WTO Appellate Body. In the speech, she gave an introduction to the procedures for the selection and appointment of members of the WTO Appellate Body and the crises faced by the WTO and pointed out that the multilateral trade system can better reflect China’s demands, support China’s voice, and protect China’s interests. In the third part of the seminar, participants gave keynote speeches and made comments on such special topics as “international investment protection and WTO issues against the background of “Belt and Road”, “the change of international trade pattern and new trend of development of trade remedy investigation”, “WTO and FTAs”, “new environmental protection measures and WTO litigation”, and “the position of WTO institutional documents in WTO laws and their application”. In the fourth part of the seminar, the participants gave keynote speeches and carried out discussions on various issues relating to WTO methodsologies, including “recording the history and researching the reality”, “the publicity and popularization of WTO rules”, “legal issues relating to disputes over airplane subsidies”, and “the conformity of the latest EU legislation on trade remedy with WTO rules”.